For Other Professionals
August 2007
A Chance to Read: Overview
Media Kit
"A Chance to Read," the ninth episode of the award-winning series "Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers," hosted by Molly Ringwald, explores the success stories that are blowing apart old assumptions about children with disabilities.
In Fort Worth, Texas, children with Williams syndrome, autism and Down syndrome show surprising progress. In Burnsville, Minnesota, deaf and hard of hearing students use a system called cued language to access English to read and write.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, "twice exceptional" kids — children who struggle terribly with reading and who are also gifted thinkers — learn with a combination of remediation and sophisticated projects that stimulate high-level thinking. In Denton, Texas, a boy who is blind becomes a fluent reader using Braille — a feat few people who are blind achieve.
In Athens, Georgia, Dr. Christopher Lee breaks new ground with assistive technology designed to help people with disabilities and learning problems.
